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both candidates right now, mitt romney and barack obama, no doubt, very nervous. i'm nervous, just looking at that picture. diane? >> okay, jake. i will see you tonight for the big event. and i want to bring in co-anchor of "good morning america" and anchor of "this week," my co-anchor tonight, george stephanopoulos. such a night after this long road. what are these two men thinking right now? >> reporter: probably exactly the same thing. tonight, don't take the other guy's bait. play your game. but there is more pressure on mitt romney tonight. you look at the polls right now, he's behind nationally, probably behind even more in the battleground statements. he needs a circuit breaker and he probably has to do something that gives people that say right now they're voting for the president, to give him a second look. >> give all of us a viewer's guide to what they are prepped to do. >> reporter: watch for almost every time mitt romney gets a question, he will try to turn it back to president obama's record. and make president obama bear responsibility for the econo
both candidates right now, mitt romney and barack obama, no doubt, very nervous. i'm nervous, just looking at that picture. diane? >> okay, jake. i will see you tonight for the big event. and i want to bring in co-anchor of "good morning america" and anchor of "this week," my co-anchor tonight, george stephanopoulos. such a night after this long road. what are these two men thinking right now? >> reporter: probably exactly the same thing. tonight, don't take the...
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the main thing is, will obama enrage the right enough to get them to vote for romney? >> it seems like romney is waiting around saying i'm going to see if nobody else wins this, if the economy is terrible, they'll vote for me. the me and getting a little bit better, and romney has still not said what he would do to make it still better. >> that's right. there is no positive economic message that's come out of him. he doesn't talk about anything in his speeches. and conservatives who want to hear a powerful, proactive in a conservative way message, they think he's kind of a goose egg. >> and he's so uncomfortable talking about his own wealth that they're afraid he's not going to come out and call for lower marginal tax rates. he has an economic speech coming up on february 24 and i'm told -- >> he's going to lay things out? about time. the other big story this week, the white house's original decision to have companies pay for birth control. here's what they wrote. they may not like obama, they may like, rather, obama, birth control, and democrats, but they don't want t
the main thing is, will obama enrage the right enough to get them to vote for romney? >> it seems like romney is waiting around saying i'm going to see if nobody else wins this, if the economy is terrible, they'll vote for me. the me and getting a little bit better, and romney has still not said what he would do to make it still better. >> that's right. there is no positive economic message that's come out of him. he doesn't talk about anything in his speeches. and conservatives who...
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he had a war story. >> romney was a rich kid with a lot of connections. >> all right, mitt romney clearly does not like talking about himself. not about his success in business, but himself, so as we said, bring out mrs. romney and friends. how did that work? >> storybook marriage? not at all. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. >> as we say endlessly, mitt romney seems to be uncomfortable talking about himself in public. he will talk numbers all day long. talk about the salt lake city olympics, but he has a hard time getting people to look at the man inside the biography. in any other profession, that would be an attractive trait, but with modern politics, it is deemed a failure. what did ann romney tell you about her husband that you did not already know? >> we know all of this. they have told us all of this. the question is -- do you believe it? >> but what mark was saying -- very nice guy, kind guy, but did not hear any anecdotes. he said give me an example. >> some of the people from the church who testified about how he had helped them. that is the kind of thing you need
he had a war story. >> romney was a rich kid with a lot of connections. >> all right, mitt romney clearly does not like talking about himself. not about his success in business, but himself, so as we said, bring out mrs. romney and friends. how did that work? >> storybook marriage? not at all. what mitt romney and i have is a real marriage. >> as we say endlessly, mitt romney seems to be uncomfortable talking about himself in public. he will talk numbers all day long....
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it's interesting that they would call that the smirk because romney -- gerri: right there. >> yes, romney's the one famous for the smirk. it's like they are trying to turn the tails saying, look what obama did now. he does smirk, but his smirk is a tightening of the mouth, his way of saying i don't agree with you, and roleny keeps that smirk on the face all the time. both need to work on the neutral expression. that means what do i look like when the other person is speaking so i don't look frustrated or angry. gerri: what are you supposed to do? >> a natural expression, rather than the jaw tensioned up, just have a neutral expression like you are listening. gerri: i like the blink rates. >> typically, what happens when we are anxious, fight or flight kicks in, we blink, get emotionally aroused if you will. the regular rate is anywhere from 17-20 blinks per minute. on tv, upwards of the 40-50 times. once we feel pressure, it goes up in in the debates, obama blinked more than romney did in this situation, but that's the first debate. romney blinks less overall. gerri: yes. i've seen numbers
it's interesting that they would call that the smirk because romney -- gerri: right there. >> yes, romney's the one famous for the smirk. it's like they are trying to turn the tails saying, look what obama did now. he does smirk, but his smirk is a tightening of the mouth, his way of saying i don't agree with you, and roleny keeps that smirk on the face all the time. both need to work on the neutral expression. that means what do i look like when the other person is speaking so i don't...
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at least mitt romney still has his donor billionaires, right? mccain was able to win the nomination. now i should also note that 2008 john mccain also provides us the opposite political science case study of how to burn down your campaign in a way you can't recover from. so he got the nomination, but once he had the nomination and was running for president, the burning down again started this week. it was the third week of september, 2008. that was the week that lehman collapsed and the crater of the american economy began. the fundamentals of our economy are strong. it was john mccain who invented the blackberry. then his surrogate said john mccain was not capable of running a company like hewlit packard and neither could sarah palin. then the campaign said carly would disappear for awhile. then they were talking about the sipc. then he sold his drill baby drill plan by saying that fish love oil rigs. and then sarah palin hailed the dawn of a new administration. then mr. mccain said he would fire the head of the securities and exchange commissi
at least mitt romney still has his donor billionaires, right? mccain was able to win the nomination. now i should also note that 2008 john mccain also provides us the opposite political science case study of how to burn down your campaign in a way you can't recover from. so he got the nomination, but once he had the nomination and was running for president, the burning down again started this week. it was the third week of september, 2008. that was the week that lehman collapsed and the crater...
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>> that's correct. >> the back track isn't silencing romney's right wing critics. in fact, it seems to beç inflaming em. "the wall street journal" have called it an unforced error. and says the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb. that's in quotes. also quote, the campaign's insular staff and strategy that are slowly squandering an historic opportunity. end of quote. at the same time more and more conservatives are criticizing how romney are running his campaign. calling on him to get specific on something. on anything. the journal said quote, the romney campaign thinks they can play it safe and coast to the white house. but what americans want to hear from the challenger is some understanding of why the president's policies aren't working and how mr. romney's policies will do better. he is losing ground. and bill chrissal if they are quote, dopes. joining me now bob franken. thank you both for joining me. erin, let's start with romney's flip-flop on the tax issue. will this hurt him? >> oh, of course. it already has started to hurt him.
>> that's correct. >> the back track isn't silencing romney's right wing critics. in fact, it seems to beç inflaming em. "the wall street journal" have called it an unforced error. and says the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb. that's in quotes. also quote, the campaign's insular staff and strategy that are slowly squandering an historic opportunity. end of quote. at the same time more and more conservatives are criticizing how romney are...
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we still really, i don't think have that much of a sense of who mitt romney is. but i think he has stumbled on the right approach to unseating president obama, that is he is coming at it more in sorrow than in anger. he tried, he is a nice man, it is okay to vote for someone else. and i think he avoided the emotions of some of the other speakers. >> he is a financial tech know kt with ice water in his veins. >> he loves his family, he loves his church, i think he can be warm in those settings. but his public person is basically kind of robotic. >> what do you think? >> i think he moved the ball forward. i think it was a good convention for him. personally for mitt romney one who is mitt romney? the american public voting public wants to know are you human? do you actually have red blood running through your veins and we learned that about him this week. but i also think the other thing he was slightly successful in doing not perfect but slightly successful was trying to do something about the damage that has been done to the republican brand over the last year. s
we still really, i don't think have that much of a sense of who mitt romney is. but i think he has stumbled on the right approach to unseating president obama, that is he is coming at it more in sorrow than in anger. he tried, he is a nice man, it is okay to vote for someone else. and i think he avoided the emotions of some of the other speakers. >> he is a financial tech know kt with ice water in his veins. >> he loves his family, he loves his church, i think he can be warm in...
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which is of course the exact same question we can ask of mitt romney right now. if you demand the tax returns of all of your opponents you should have to give your tax returns. now when running for president of the united states of america and if you don't in the words of your own spokesperson what are you hiding? mitt, release your returns. release them now! okay. the reason he isn't, of course, he apparently has something gigantic to hide. when we come back, we'll keep talking about this. here is the amazing part of this. the role reversal. all of a sudden the democratic party is the strongest thing you've seen in your life and the republicans are running for cover. how did that happen? we have the specifics exactly how it's happening when we come back ♪ oh beautiful ♪ for spacious guys spacious skies ♪ for purple mountains ♪ majesty ♪ we will not settle for easy answers. (vo) the former governor of ny eliot spitzer, joins the new news network. >>every night we will drill down on the days top stories in search of facts that inform. [ ♪ theme music â
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right now, mitt romney is explaining. did he really leave bain in 1999? whdoesis ne apar obain domentsubsuento th? anwhy es imatt? causaccute onot,he in ms cas dot on roey'srincle aumenthat it'sis binesexpeence thatost alifs hito b present. the obama campaign dented romney's strength, karl rove couldn't have done a better job. perhs it was bausehe roeyampan waso eer to ange theubje thahey let sl to ddge ttondoezza riceasmergs t v.p. pick. there are lots of reasons to believe this is nothing more than a shiny brighobject to take our attention off of bain. but she would help romney plug a number of holes. > psresint oma ss hi bigstmiakeas bn ttin polyvertory tellg. i lkedbouthat o nits aghere why esn'the esidt do better job of telling people what he's accomplished. >>> and what happens to penn statin the wak o the ndus port ll ie givhe aa's deatpenay a b fm pying otba fort lea a year >>> finally, courtesy of "huffington post," politicians that look like disney characters. take ron paul. es hremi youf anne? w abt clde fm th nchbk
right now, mitt romney is explaining. did he really leave bain in 1999? whdoesis ne apar obain domentsubsuento th? anwhy es imatt? causaccute onot,he in ms cas dot on roey'srincle aumenthat it'sis binesexpeence thatost alifs hito b present. the obama campaign dented romney's strength, karl rove couldn't have done a better job. perhs it was bausehe roeyampan waso eer to ange theubje thahey let sl to ddge ttondoezza riceasmergs t v.p. pick. there are lots of reasons to believe this is nothing...
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eventually i think they will rally around romney. >> he has made so many appeals to the right. he has said things like send them all home, self deportation to the tea party, which is strong, talking about going to war with iran. what does he have to do? >> it is part of the courtship. it is not always the things that are said in public, but done haslinda the scenes. >> his economic message has an appeal to the right. their strategy was as long as we have this slew of candidates who are going to divide up the tea party conservatives and the evangelicals, we don't have to worry about that constituency because they are going to be split anyway. but now mitt romney finds himself in a situation where you have someone like rick santorum who actually appeals to them tremendously. and so he has a real problem. chris: i have a great new poll number here. you ask do you like mitt romney more the more you see him, or less. 52% of the people say they like less the more they see him. >> that is pretty unfortunate for him. that is a great understatement. [laughter] >> that is a tough questio
eventually i think they will rally around romney. >> he has made so many appeals to the right. he has said things like send them all home, self deportation to the tea party, which is strong, talking about going to war with iran. what does he have to do? >> it is part of the courtship. it is not always the things that are said in public, but done haslinda the scenes. >> his economic message has an appeal to the right. their strategy was as long as we have this slew of...
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in colorado, in one right-leaning poll romney is now up by 3 points. the same showed him losing by 5 before the debate. now he's up by 3. in virginia, the president is ahead by 3 in virginia. that same poll had the president's lead at 5 points before the debate. that shows the president's lead shrinking. in michigan, it's now barack obama by just 3 points. the president had led by 10 last month. now it's down to 3. in ohio today, a poll on the right gives the president an edge of 2 points. that poll in iowa shows a gain for mr. obama, a 5-point gain. in florida, the same poll shows a 4-point swing for romney. he's up by 2 points. so the major fall or minor lift, however, you rattle the number lose, as the overall national polling shifts and the swing state races shift with them, the state where the romney campaign is hoping for the biggest shift of all is in ohio. in modern political history, ohio has been the path to the presidency for republican candidates. if republican candidates win ohio, they win the white house. if mitt romney doesn't win ohio,
in colorado, in one right-leaning poll romney is now up by 3 points. the same showed him losing by 5 before the debate. now he's up by 3. in virginia, the president is ahead by 3 in virginia. that same poll had the president's lead at 5 points before the debate. that shows the president's lead shrinking. in michigan, it's now barack obama by just 3 points. the president had led by 10 last month. now it's down to 3. in ohio today, a poll on the right gives the president an edge of 2 points. that...
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right now, this state is swinging more to mitt romney. it could change. do you think it will change? >> guest: the state will be won or lost by what happens on the ground. obama campaign has 103 field offices, well-trained, professionals. >> neil: it's not working libe a charm for him. they're behind. that could change. >> guest: the polls don't show effort on the ground. the polls show people they talk to. >> neil: true. you feel better if your guy was on top? >> guest: there have been polls all over the place. that's what i do know is we have an evident to move forward and make sure people understand the difference to be the candidate. >> neil: thanks. tight breaking news. we'll have more from the spin room after this. hahahaha! hooohooo, hahaha! this is awesome! folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. i'd say happier than a slinky on an escalator. get happy. get geico. melons!!! oh yeah!! well that was uncalled for. folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy, ronny? happier than gallagh
right now, this state is swinging more to mitt romney. it could change. do you think it will change? >> guest: the state will be won or lost by what happens on the ground. obama campaign has 103 field offices, well-trained, professionals. >> neil: it's not working libe a charm for him. they're behind. that could change. >> guest: the polls don't show effort on the ground. the polls show people they talk to. >> neil: true. you feel better if your guy was on top? >>...
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that's the damaging thing for mitt romney and the republican party right now. we had our recent nbc/wall street journal poll. the last month and a half has taken a toll on the republican party. even if mitt romney, everything breaks his way, he's probably not going to wrap up that 1144 magic number until may. so, we have potentially another month and a half, two months of this. >> liz, let's go back to ohio. women voters helping out mitt romney there. he won having a strong lead with unmarried working women, way ahead with female voters who believe abortion should be legal. in your estimation, can romney repair the damage going forward, the women that have been kind of repelled from underneath the republican party tent through all this social talk on the campaign trail, contraception, other issues? >> yeah, this is going to be his challenge in a general election. you saw president obama weigh into this yesterday, where he said, he believes that the democrats have a better story to tell on women, to tell female voters than republicans do. you know, romney has go
that's the damaging thing for mitt romney and the republican party right now. we had our recent nbc/wall street journal poll. the last month and a half has taken a toll on the republican party. even if mitt romney, everything breaks his way, he's probably not going to wrap up that 1144 magic number until may. so, we have potentially another month and a half, two months of this. >> liz, let's go back to ohio. women voters helping out mitt romney there. he won having a strong lead with...
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but he may be right on time to use some summer to try to disqualify mitt romney as a guy whose business expertise came at the expense of regular americans. is the obama plan working? we won't know until november. and finally, you betcha, the romney runninging make looks to be a safe choice, no sarah palin this time. any chance that goes safe is an overreaction. the bland leading the bland. i'm chuck todd. chris matthews is off this week. welcome to the show. with us today, dan rather, gloria borger, kathleen parker and david ignatius. first up, the tragedy in denver came at the end of a week that was notable for how small and petty the campaign was getting and only seemed to highlight the smallness. dan, look, you have been through a lot of these rodeos. looking back at the last week of politics, it was awful. and then friday happens and all the campaigns started acting responsibly again. >> but that won't last long. this does perspective, this puts this into perspective. it signals to us once again just how bland and mostly irrelevant the campaign rhetoric has been. yes, the initial re
but he may be right on time to use some summer to try to disqualify mitt romney as a guy whose business expertise came at the expense of regular americans. is the obama plan working? we won't know until november. and finally, you betcha, the romney runninging make looks to be a safe choice, no sarah palin this time. any chance that goes safe is an overreaction. the bland leading the bland. i'm chuck todd. chris matthews is off this week. welcome to the show. with us today, dan rather, gloria...
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that's why mitt romney is there in colorado on this evening, right? >> that's exactly right, wolf. keep in mind, earlier this week, there was talk that romney would go to minnesota. that was scrapped at the last second and they sent tim pawlenty, his top surrogate in the state, that has not worked. it didn't help mitt romney in the state. he got 41% of the caucus vote back in 2008. he's going to pull off perhaps a fraction of that tonight. only -- if there's a silver lining for romney in any of this tonight, it's this, that not only is there some uncertainty about the gop front-runner, there's uncertainty as to who the un-romney is, it was gingrich, now it appears to be santorum. that appears to be a good thing for romney. they haven't decided on an un-romney now. >> we're waiting to hear from romney and santorum as well. anderson, earlier, we spoke with newt gingrich and ron paul. they have moved on, basically, but the two candidates, they should be speaking soon. we'll take their remarks. >> if you're mitt romney tonight, how do you spin this? >> that you didn't spend money in th
that's why mitt romney is there in colorado on this evening, right? >> that's exactly right, wolf. keep in mind, earlier this week, there was talk that romney would go to minnesota. that was scrapped at the last second and they sent tim pawlenty, his top surrogate in the state, that has not worked. it didn't help mitt romney in the state. he got 41% of the caucus vote back in 2008. he's going to pull off perhaps a fraction of that tonight. only -- if there's a silver lining for romney in...
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all right, kathleen. >> on a lighter subject, i finally got to the bottom of the romney's car elevator question. this is where we went with our interview. actually it's a $1,500 lift, like one of those things they have in car garages where they park cars in different places. i envision that your drive your into a ritz-carlton elevator and go up to the penthouse. >> krpted? >> apparently now. >> when he come back, a little serious time, the big question of the week, does the meltdown in syria play out as a divisive issue in this country during this presidential race this year? we'll be right back. >> welcome back. this week's big question, will the meltdown in syria become an actual campaign issue and one that will sharply divide president obama and mitt romney. david ignatius, your criticism for mitt romney on syria, but no alternative idea? >> you're going to hear more criticism. i think syria is going to frame the basic foreign argument in this campaign. president obama will say i got us out of a war in iraq, getting us out of a war in afghanistan and not getting us into a new war in
all right, kathleen. >> on a lighter subject, i finally got to the bottom of the romney's car elevator question. this is where we went with our interview. actually it's a $1,500 lift, like one of those things they have in car garages where they park cars in different places. i envision that your drive your into a ritz-carlton elevator and go up to the penthouse. >> krpted? >> apparently now. >> when he come back, a little serious time, the big question of the week, does...
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if something is going to pop, it will probably pop for romney. >> right, this is part of a general election campaign. obama has been through it and romney hasn't. i know there is a theory that obama has not been vetted, but there was so many stories written about him at harvard, childhood, in the senate, nothing new will come out. but with mitt romney, the narrative is confined to the run as governor, and a time at a prep school, his mormon faith, and journalist in dc have not had a chance to pour over these records and will be competing with one another for the next big story. so they have to be cognizant of being urn more scrutiny than the president will be. >> let's look at this possibility of another big foreign policy success story. michael smerconish, you have been very concerned from day one in 9/11 that we have to catch the bad guys and stay off the other distractions, a big al qaeda kill that could really concern romney because it would show the president to be one tough customer protecting this country. what would your scenario be? >> i think the story is that so many of the them
if something is going to pop, it will probably pop for romney. >> right, this is part of a general election campaign. obama has been through it and romney hasn't. i know there is a theory that obama has not been vetted, but there was so many stories written about him at harvard, childhood, in the senate, nothing new will come out. but with mitt romney, the narrative is confined to the run as governor, and a time at a prep school, his mormon faith, and journalist in dc have not had a...
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so no one has the money to attack romney right now. but on these debates that are coming up this week, you're going to see gingrich is going to blow through every question and immediately -- >> frankly, that's whobl what he'll do. he will profoundly and frankly go after mitt romney. >> i read the speech as i will try to take romney down with me. because this kind of display of pet lance will not help gingrich. >> of course, that's why barack obama very wisely did not do that. >> but enables santorum to make the positive case for himself while somebody else is making the negative case against romney. >> once again, the race right now, even at this late, late hour, well into, what are we, wednesday morning, too close to call, about, what, 18 votes separating rick santorum and mitt romney. rick santorum up with 29,944. mitt romney, 29,926 votes. 23 votes shy of his 2008 mark. we're going to talk about the other caucuses that happened in iowa tonight, the ones that no one has talked about that happened on the democratic side right after th
so no one has the money to attack romney right now. but on these debates that are coming up this week, you're going to see gingrich is going to blow through every question and immediately -- >> frankly, that's whobl what he'll do. he will profoundly and frankly go after mitt romney. >> i read the speech as i will try to take romney down with me. because this kind of display of pet lance will not help gingrich. >> of course, that's why barack obama very wisely did not do that....
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it may not be mitt romney's platform. >> right. but look, you asked me about paul ryan. >> i did. >> you know, paul ryan is doing the best he can to get through the questioning and ge an answer that would at least get the press folks on that plane off his back. but as with his medicare -- medicare plan and his plans for medicare, two ryan budgets, his -- supportings things like hr 3 and personhood amendment, personhood bills, he's going to -- going to be asked those questions and will be held accountable for those votes and for those positions by the press because, well, unlike mitt romney who has been all over the place on a whole lot of issues, paul ryan has a record as a congressman very clear lines of what he believes in and what he is for and against. what he won't support. and so that gives us a -- clue into if we don't quite know where mitt romney is going to go, let's look at paul ryan's cash paul ryan's background legislative background to see where mitt romney might go. >> indeed. >> who is at the top of the ticket? how m
it may not be mitt romney's platform. >> right. but look, you asked me about paul ryan. >> i did. >> you know, paul ryan is doing the best he can to get through the questioning and ge an answer that would at least get the press folks on that plane off his back. but as with his medicare -- medicare plan and his plans for medicare, two ryan budgets, his -- supportings things like hr 3 and personhood amendment, personhood bills, he's going to -- going to be asked those questions...
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romney. >> romney drops out tomorrow and it's between gingrich and santorum. [ laughter ] >> all right. thank you everybody. >> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? singing in the sunshine state. ♪ america america. god shed his grace on thee. ♪ >> romney serenades supporters while he is ahead by a wide margin but newt gingrich whistles a different tune. >> six months. unless romney drops out. >> the polls are closed and the results are rolling in with analysis from elliott spitse and live from florida with craig crawford, countdown's david shuster, coverage of the 2012 florida primary begins now! ♪ from sea to shining sea ♪ >> good evening. it's an exciting night. good to have you with us. thanks for joining us tuesday january 31st 281 days until the 2012 presidential election. i am bill press sitting in for keith olbermann. this is our "countdown" coverage of the 2012 g.o.p. florida primary and what you want to know at this hour. cnn, fox and msnbc have all called the florida primary for mitt romney. no surprise there. maybe the only surprise is they call
romney. >> romney drops out tomorrow and it's between gingrich and santorum. [ laughter ] >> all right. thank you everybody. >> which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? singing in the sunshine state. ♪ america america. god shed his grace on thee. ♪ >> romney serenades supporters while he is ahead by a wide margin but newt gingrich whistles a different tune. >> six months. unless romney drops out. >> the polls are closed and the results...
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he could easily do it with santorum, but romney has moved somewhat to the right. i thi i think the thing about romney moving to the right is a lot of independents know he's just playing a conservative on tv because he does it so poorly. there's almost a certain logic or asset in that that he doesn't lie very well. he's a terrible liar. you can see right through him. when he's like playacting that he's a southerner and i eat grits and all this stuff, people know he's faking it. that could help him with independents. they don't believe he really is a kwefsh conservative. >> the new yorker had this, and the bartender said governor romney what would you like? that's the core issue of his ideolo ideology. >> let's go tie student from gettysburg college. you're next. >> hi. i'm sarah hayes from concord, new hampshire. i had a question about the change issue in the 2008 election, which obama eventually turned into an asset. to what degree do you think that jeopardized the mccain campaign in the general election and the clinton campaign in the primaries? >> he used it suc
he could easily do it with santorum, but romney has moved somewhat to the right. i thi i think the thing about romney moving to the right is a lot of independents know he's just playing a conservative on tv because he does it so poorly. there's almost a certain logic or asset in that that he doesn't lie very well. he's a terrible liar. you can see right through him. when he's like playacting that he's a southerner and i eat grits and all this stuff, people know he's faking it. that could help...
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the romney people are a referendum on obama and the right-wing economic policies. that is a huge loser. i have some great polling data if you have a second. 51%. there's five or six districts just polled and between 51% and 59% in the swing districts absolutely do not favor a voucher or having a voucher program for medicare. that's a killer. that is an absolute kill er. i think they're going to lose florida as a result. i want to get former chairman steele in here for just a moment. so you hear those numbers and we've seen some of the headlines coming out of florida with real concerns about whether ryan will be an asset for governor romney or not. as the former party chairman, you have to be concerned about that, no? >> i'm not concerned about that now. it's the middle of august. rolling numbers, whether they're good or bad at this stage don't amount to too much. i go back to the earlier point made. once we get past the conventions. you get into the heart, the meat of this campaign, then we'll have this philosophical debate. what romney has done by picking ryan, ry
the romney people are a referendum on obama and the right-wing economic policies. that is a huge loser. i have some great polling data if you have a second. 51%. there's five or six districts just polled and between 51% and 59% in the swing districts absolutely do not favor a voucher or having a voucher program for medicare. that's a killer. that is an absolute kill er. i think they're going to lose florida as a result. i want to get former chairman steele in here for just a moment. so you hear...
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that's what mitt romney's doing right now. the man who's running the most fact-free campaign in modern history is now accusing president obama of twisting the truth. >> the challenge that i'll have in the debate is that the president tends to, how shall i say it, say things that aren't true in attacking his opponents. i've looked at prior debates and in that kind of case it's difficult to say, well, am i going to spend my time correcting things that aren't quite accurate or am i going to spend my time talking about things that i want to talk about? >> i can't believe what i'm hearing. romney has been misleading by example this entire campaign. his own pollster said, quote, we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers. and now he's accusing president obama of not telling the truth? as bill clinton said last week, it takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did. joining me now is melissa harris-perry, host of the melissa harris-perry show here on msnbc and e.j. dionne, an msnbc contributor. thank y
that's what mitt romney's doing right now. the man who's running the most fact-free campaign in modern history is now accusing president obama of twisting the truth. >> the challenge that i'll have in the debate is that the president tends to, how shall i say it, say things that aren't true in attacking his opponents. i've looked at prior debates and in that kind of case it's difficult to say, well, am i going to spend my time correcting things that aren't quite accurate or am i going to...
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and obama at 48, and nevada, obama has a slight lead, over romney, 50-47 right now then the state of ohio, peter alexander traveling with the romney campaign in defiance, ohio, good evening peter. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you, these days the "o" in ohio could be optimism, this is the most confident mitt romney we've seen all year, and despite the polls showing the race is neck and neck, romney is telling the crowds that he will win. weaving his way from cincinnati to the town of defiance, romney claimed the opponent's theme of change four years ago. >> these challenges are big challenges, this election, therefore, is a big choice, and america wants to see big changes and we'll bring big changes to get america stronger again. >> reporter: seeking an edge in the battle of ideas, governor romney said president obama's campaign lacks vision. >> the obama campaign doesn't have a plan, the obama campaign is slipping because he is talking about smaller and smaller things. despite the fact america has such huge challenges. >> reporter: both campaigns are claiming the momentum, avo
and obama at 48, and nevada, obama has a slight lead, over romney, 50-47 right now then the state of ohio, peter alexander traveling with the romney campaign in defiance, ohio, good evening peter. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you, these days the "o" in ohio could be optimism, this is the most confident mitt romney we've seen all year, and despite the polls showing the race is neck and neck, romney is telling the crowds that he will win. weaving his way from cincinnati to...
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the side bar, right? next to it. right there -- it's about romney. and the sort of, you know, shoot from the lip approach which, you know, and the questions of judgment and character that is raises. domestic policies, you make an of yourself and then the character question. i mean, at a moment like that when you don't know what's going on, when you know america is under attack, we are all supposed to be americans. >> this is sort of the thing that newt gingrich would do. how can i attack the gut. >> mitt romney went out there and we all talk about the campaign and how can people let him do this? these words passed through his lips not once, but twice. and he's not a dumb guy. he had to know what he was doing and, as you noted earlier, had he to know that the stuff wasn't true and yet he said it any way. >> the new rules of engagement are, even if you know something about medicare, is it true? even if you know something about welfare, it's not true. >> there's something particularly foul about this instance. we have the death and mitt romney is trying
the side bar, right? next to it. right there -- it's about romney. and the sort of, you know, shoot from the lip approach which, you know, and the questions of judgment and character that is raises. domestic policies, you make an of yourself and then the character question. i mean, at a moment like that when you don't know what's going on, when you know america is under attack, we are all supposed to be americans. >> this is sort of the thing that newt gingrich would do. how can i attack...
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right now looks like romney 41 santorum 38. and let me kick it first to mark brewer and mark did the democratic party encourage democrats to vote in this primary? >> absolutely not. that's our policy. this has been a real disaster for the mitt romney campaign and the republican party. this was supposed to be mitt romney's anointment. this was put together by the republican establishment, so romney could get anointed here tonight. if he wins at all, he will limp out of here very badly damaged having spent 6, $7 million on a state he should have considered a walk. so he needs to look in the mirror that the opposition to the auto rescue and the other things he has said and done was really his downfall tonight. >> i would like you all to listen to two sound bites from governor romney. one from 2007 and one from very recently about this issue of cross-over voting and whether he supports it or not? >> i think republicans have to recognize there's a real effort to kidnap our -- our primary process, and if he want republicans to nomina
right now looks like romney 41 santorum 38. and let me kick it first to mark brewer and mark did the democratic party encourage democrats to vote in this primary? >> absolutely not. that's our policy. this has been a real disaster for the mitt romney campaign and the republican party. this was supposed to be mitt romney's anointment. this was put together by the republican establishment, so romney could get anointed here tonight. if he wins at all, he will limp out of here very badly...
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it found only 5% said they support romney right now. and that's compared to nearly 90% for the president. so for romney, is this really less about appealing the black voters and more about sending a message to white independent voters who are looking for a candidate that does have broad appeal across various groups. >> when it comes to the african-american community, mitt romney is not going to make any significant inroads. president obama will get roughly the same percentage of the black vote he did the last election. but my instinct tells me the strategy here was, obviously, do i think to speak to an important group and to the black community across the country, but i think the real message here was to moderates and independents to kind of, you know, soften his image. i think the problem, you know if that was a strategy or whatever the strategy was, when you scratch at the surface and listen to the substance of his speech, much like when you listen to the substance of his policies, there's not much there beyond any nice rhetoric that
it found only 5% said they support romney right now. and that's compared to nearly 90% for the president. so for romney, is this really less about appealing the black voters and more about sending a message to white independent voters who are looking for a candidate that does have broad appeal across various groups. >> when it comes to the african-american community, mitt romney is not going to make any significant inroads. president obama will get roughly the same percentage of the black...
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and hepresident.and he will set the political of romney administration. >> eliot: right now those policies don't appear to be winners. in the poll of romney and ryan, a mere 4 points. but yet women gave the president a ten-point edge over romney and when asked who would give the percentage. meanwhile, the democrats will be highlightings with wi congresswomn, geo activ fluke pr relin pro-choncy keenan. us. >> hi eliott great to be here. thanks.ot: congratulations on your speaking role, the convention, i don't want to pry too much, but was this just in the last week, or was this a long-planned >> look, it's an honor for me to speak at the convention and talkt the importance of women's health and women's abortion rights issues. because these are fundamental issues of freedom and privacy for women, and women are going to make a difference in this election. >> eliot: women are going to certainly make a difference in this election. there is still a yawning gap between the way women and men view the competing tickets. did you think a year ago that abortion rights would be front and center in the
and hepresident.and he will set the political of romney administration. >> eliot: right now those policies don't appear to be winners. in the poll of romney and ryan, a mere 4 points. but yet women gave the president a ten-point edge over romney and when asked who would give the percentage. meanwhile, the democrats will be highlightings with wi congresswomn, geo activ fluke pr relin pro-choncy keenan. us. >> hi eliott great to be here. thanks.ot: congratulations on your speaking...
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mike's right that this created an opportunity for romney. he's also right that romney performed better than his campaign has performed recently. but let's remember what most of the problems that romney has had recently. his campaign's been not that great. the president's team has defined him in a negative way with millions dollars of advertising and so far. he's been a rotten candidate. the things that have really hurt him before his 47% statement, his reaction to libya the stuff that happened to europe. there's a variety of things that happened and it's all about his bad candidate skills. so the part i want to agree with mike about is, he has a huge opportunity going forward but it's not the campaign or not only the campaign that has the opportunity. what the spotlight's going to be on tomorrow is, is the mitt romney that we saw last night in this debate who seems not like the mitt romney we've seen for the last six months, is that mitt romney the mitt romney we see tomorrow. do we see a new reinvigorated mitt romney. is he now putting a fo
mike's right that this created an opportunity for romney. he's also right that romney performed better than his campaign has performed recently. but let's remember what most of the problems that romney has had recently. his campaign's been not that great. the president's team has defined him in a negative way with millions dollars of advertising and so far. he's been a rotten candidate. the things that have really hurt him before his 47% statement, his reaction to libya the stuff that happened...
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romney's right now generally running behind. i think he's going to catch up in virginia because he was tied up in a primary, president obama has been running ads for six months here in virginia. i think it will be pretty close. what people care about are jobs and the economy. >> i want to ask you -- >> i do run into folks who are probably going to vote for president obama. and they like president obama, but for whatever reasons they like president obama. they also like my ideas. and it ends up being not so much a political or issue-based approach as i like you, i like what you've done and so forth, so you'll probably get some of that, but for the most part -- >> people who like you and will vote for you regardless of the fact that you and the president have nothing in common. >> we agree that 26-year-olds ought to stay on their family's policies because they can't find jobs with this economy. >> let me ask you, as you know, governor romney has taken quite a hit over bain capital and also over his refusal to release anything othe
romney's right now generally running behind. i think he's going to catch up in virginia because he was tied up in a primary, president obama has been running ads for six months here in virginia. i think it will be pretty close. what people care about are jobs and the economy. >> i want to ask you -- >> i do run into folks who are probably going to vote for president obama. and they like president obama, but for whatever reasons they like president obama. they also like my ideas. and...